Scott Eyman

Movies

The Ten Commandments: Making Miracles
Self
A documentary about C.B. DeMilles biblical epic 'The Ten Commandments' (1956).
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Self
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
Self
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the triumph of the talkies.
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Writer
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marlene Dietrich and others relate tales of the artistic freedom that led to the draconian Production Code, which governed content from 1934 to 1968. Diane Lane narrates.
Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption
Writer
Short documentary about the making of the John Ford/John Wayne film "Stagecoach".